Matters Of The Heart.

Truth.

Kelsey's P.O.V.

Grissom and I walked back into the lab, hand and hand, both supporting a 'I just got thoroughly laid' grin. People looked at us strangely and it didn't take long for me to figure out why.

"Gil, Let go of my hand." I muttered, trying to pull my hand free but he just squeezed held it tighter.

He looked over at me, smirking a little. "Why? I'm not ready to let you go yet."

Glancing around us quickly, to see if we were out of earshot I replied. "People are staring. They don't know we are together, if the people higher up find out we could still be fired."

He shrugged seemingly not concerned. "I don't care if they know or not. As for the big man I doubt he'd fire us. We are to valuable right now."

"You really don't care about people knowing about us?" I asked uncertain. He has always been a private man, I don't think that could change so suddenly.

"I really don't dear. In fact I want everyone to know that you're mine, Maybe the men will stop hitting on you then." He growled lovingly.

"Gil! It was one time!" I laughed out. I never thought he could be jealous of that.

"One time to many honey. Especially for an old man who loves you dearly." He told me sweetly.

I grinned up at him. "Gil, When did you get such a way with words?"

"You bring the romantic out in me." He answered, grinning back.

We walked into his office, and he finally released my hand. I turned to look at him in surprise, which caused him to let out a deep throated chuckle. He wrapped his arms around me as he whispered into my ear. "Why would I hold your hand when I can do this?"

I wrapped my arms around his waist holding him tightly. "That's a very good question Mr. Grissom."

"Indeed it is Miss. Thomas."

I buried my head into the side of his neck as I basked in the glory that is Gilbert Grissom. Wrapped in his warm embrace and inhaling his deep musky scent, feeling his heart beat so hard that when it beat against his chest it also beat against my chest, his soft breath tickling my neck, He was everywhere around me.

"I love you Kelsey." He whispered.

"I love you too Gil."

He pulled back to hold my face in his hands. "I never thought I could like this for someone, With you I don't worry about losing my job. I worry about losing you. I don't know what I would do if you ever decided I wasn't enough."

My eyes watered at his words. "Gil, I feel the same way. I never was able to have a honest and open relationship, until you. I never knew what it was like to love someone so completely."

He wiped away the tears that dared to fall. "I used to find it difficult to open up, and let people see the man inside. The man with feelings but you wiped that all away with one little smile. Even when you were in college I opened up more to you than anyone else. You know me better than people I've known my whole life. You've always held a part of me."

I didn't know what else to say so I said the only thing I felt important. "I love you so much Gilbert."

He gave me a light smile releasing my face to hold my hands in his and opened his mouth but was cut off by someone yelling.

"Grissom! You might want to see this!" I opened the door to find Warrick leaning out of the layout room door, looking at me in concern.

Gil's grin immediately vanished as he gave the hand he still held a quick squeeze before releasing it, settling to lay his hand on my lower back as he lead us in the layout room.

Warrick shot me a quick look. "You may not want to be here for this Kelsey."

Gil shook his head. "She needs to know as much as I do. What's going on?"

"Well we were going through the boxes and I stumbled across this." Warrick explained holding up some sort of VCR tape.

"What is it?" I questioned.

"Are you sure you want to know? It's not pretty." Catherine asked.

I nodded. "I need to know. Just like Grissom said."

They nodded. Looking over at Gil for permission to start the tape. He nodded his head in consent. "Go ahead."

Almost instantly shots of dead women popped up on the screen, all laying in different poses. The crime scenes were difficult to look at, all of them were gruesome. Blood everywhere. That's not what made my stomach clench painfully and unease settle in my stomach though, no. All of the women looked just like me in some way shape or form. From the same color of eyes, body shape, hair. It was hard to keep my eyes open and continue to watch the video. Near the end however there were screams coming out from the speakers and displayed on the tv in big bold letters were the words 'Here's A Heart For Everytime You've Broken Mine. I love you Kelsey, and soon you will be mine -T.K.O.H.' then the screen faded to black.

The echoing silence in the room was almost enough to strangle me right there. My eyes watered as I thought about those poor women. They had to die because I somehow broke this mans heart? Who deserves to die for a crime they didn't commit.

"Baby.." I heard Gil whisper.

I shook my head at him. "I'm fine." I turned to Warrick. "What does this mean? Have you decoded the initials at the bottom?"

Catherine decided to take the lead. "We have. Do you want the good news or the bad news first?"

"The good." I answered, as somehow my hand found Gil's. I gave his hand a tight squeeze, telling him silently I needed him right now. He squeezed back just as tightly, letting me know he was there.

"We found your serial killer." Warrick answered.

My eyes widened. "We did?"

Warrick and Catherine nodded in unison, giving us small sad smiles. But Gil wasn't hearing any of it. "What's the bad news?" He asked.

"The Keeper of Hearts is Kelsey's stalker, and she has all the hearts." Warrick answered gravely.

---Authors Note---

How many of you saw that one coming? ;) I hope not a lot! This is where the story starts to pick up! How will Grissom react to this news? Maybe a swat team surrounding Kelsey? I could see him doing that... Hope your enjoying the story! Love you guys! :D Don't forget Fan! I love meeting new people! Vote! For the sake of being awesome! Comment! So I can get fed back on how to make the story better!